Arianna Huffington Quotes
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Well, you could become a Southern Baptist. I mean, instead of having to obey the Pope, you could just obey your husband.
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Other people need a full night's sleep in order to function and be healthy and alert. But I'm different.
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I'm passionate. I find if I really believe something, I want to put my entire being behind it.
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The current male-dominated model of success - which equates success with burnout, sleep deprivation, and driving yourself into the ground - isn't working for women, and it's not working for men, either.
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About five years ago, I fainted from exhaustion. I hit my head on my desk. I broke my cheekbone and got four stitches on my right eye. It started me on this journey of rediscovering sleep and balance and integrating my life. I think everyone should stop and reassess their lives before you hit your head on your desk.
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Living in a state of gratitude is the gateway to grace.
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That's what I try to do as a writer and as the editor of HuffPost: cover important stories in an obsessive way that enables them to break through the din of our multimedia universe.
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Being fearless doesn't mean living a life devoid of fear, but living a life in which our fears don't hold us back
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Don't wait until you're not afraid of something to do it. Do it despite the fear and you'll start to develop a 'fearlessness muscle'.
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Meditation, yoga, and walks are all ways to regulate our stress and reconnect.
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America is a country ready to be taken - in fact, longing to be taken - by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process.
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If you take care of your mind, you take care of the world.’
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America being behind France in upward mobility is a little bit like France being behind America in Croissants and Afternoon Sex.
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Fearlessness is the mother of reinvention.
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I studied, I met with medical doctors, scientists, and I’m here to tell you that the way to a more productive, more inspired, more joyful life is: getting enough sleep.
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When your house is burning down, you don't worry about the remodeling.
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The crisis in America that we barely notice anymore is that we've become two nations - divided by poverty, opportunity, and race. It's like a neighbor's car alarm that we don't hear anymore because it rings so often.
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What preoccupies us is the way we define success. If you see your life purely in terms of money and power, then everything in your life becomes about 'Am I getting ahead?' and that is truly a barbaric way to live, because it eliminates huge chunks of our humanity.
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I'm much more creative when I've actually taken care of myself.
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What won't work - what can't work - is to act like the last years never happened, and that the survival of the [mass media] industry will be found by hiding content behind walled gardens. Instead of sticking their finger in the dike, trying to hold back the flow of innovation, companies need to ride the rapids of progress and seize the opportunities it provides.
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The most effective means for restoring the integrity of our electoral process, and repairing the public's tattered faith in its elected representatives, is through the full public financing of political campigns. It's the mother of all reforms: the one reform that makes all other reforms possible. After all, he who pays the piper calls the tune. If someone's going to own the politicians, it might as well be the American people.
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We take better care of our smartphone than ourselves. We know when the battery is depleted and recharge it
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Money and power by themselves are a two-legged stool. You can balance on them for a while, but eventually you're going to topple over.
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I always try to practice what I preach. I meditate for fifteen minutes every day and do yoga several times a week.
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Consumer habits have changed dramatically. People have gotten used to getting the news they want, when they want it, how they want it, and where they want it. And this change is here to stay. Despite all the dire reports about the state of the newspaper industry, we are actually in the middle of a golden age for news consumers who can surf the Net, use search engines, access the best stories from around the world, and be able to comment, interact, and form communities.
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In The 3rd Alternative, Stephen Covey urges us to chart a course beyond the suboptimal solutions to all our crises - beyond left and right, and beyond the many false choices in front of us. The 3rdAlternative is a wise and welcome echo of Einstein's warning that the problems we're facing today cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.
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we'll have to reclaim the ward 'taxes.' Why has it become a synonym for 'evil'? I understand that no one likes to pay good money for nothing. But fire and police protection aren't nothing. ... Roads, bridges, airports, and mass transit systems aren't nothing. National parks, clean air, and clear water aren't nothing. A safe food supply, functioning schools with well-trained teachers, and well-equipped hospitals aren't vaporous apparitions either.
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The economic game is not supposed to be rigged like some shady ring toss on a carnival midway.
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The middle class is teetering on the brink of collapse just as surely as AIG was in the fall of 2009 - only this time, it's not just one giant insurance company (and its banking counterparties) facing disaster, it's tens of millions of hardworking Americans who played by the rules.
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Today we often use deadlines—real and imaginary—to imprison ourselves.
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